Summer School on Social Innovation

  • Travel and getting there

    Getting to Lisbon: Please organise your own travel arrangements

    BY AIR
    Lisbon International Airport, 7 km from the city centre, has daily flights to and from the major cities in Europe and the world. The Portuguese airlines TAP - Air Portugal and PGA - Portugália Airlines, as well as major international airlines, fly to and from Lisbon.

    BY ROAD
    The city has good road accesses and the most frequently used routes are: the A1 motorway. the 25th April Bridge, the new Vasco da Gama Bridge, and the CREL, the outer ring-road for the Lisboa region.

    BY RAIL
    Many national and international trains arrive in Lisboa every day. In addition to Santa Apolónia terminal station, the city now has the new Gare do Oriente, which opened in 1998 adjacent to the Parque das Nações. Both stations have direct bus or underground connections to the city centre.

    BY SEA
    The Port of Lisboa is the busiest port on the European Atlantic coast. It has three terminals for cruise ships: the Alcântara, Rocha de Conde d’Óbidos and the Santa Apolónia terminals. Lisboa is often a port of call for many cruise ships (coming from many different places). Furthermore, the city also has marinas for pleasure boats in the docks of Belém, Santo Amaro, Bom Sucesso. Alcântara and, most recently, the Olivais Docks.

    Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation/FUNDAÇÃO CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN
    Av. de Berna, 45A
    1067-001 Lisboa
    Tel: + 351 21 782 3000
    Fax: + 351 21 782 3021

    Public transport to Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
    Underground > S. Sebastião (Blue line)
    Buses > 16, 718, 726, 742, 746, 56